ACWA is pleased to offer this collection of links to State and NGO resources intended to help State Water Quality Regulators assess their ability to adopt and, where applicable, implement NNC. It is ACWA’s intent to continue adding relevant resources to this webpage. Please send suggestions to jhobbs@acwa-us.org.
The resources are organized by category. Additional resources are available on EPA’s Federal NNC Toolkit Page.
State NNC Development Plans
- Colorado’s 2002 Nutrient Criteria Development Plan and 2013 Updates
- Florida’s NNC Development Plan (March 2009)
- New Jersey’s Nutrient Criteria Enhancement Plan (2009)
- Wisconsin’s Eutrophication Management Strategy (2007)
Criteria Development
- Florida’s Development of NNC
- see Technical Support Documents, Legislative Reports, and more
- Lessons Learned from Florida’s NNC Development Efforts (NEED PDF)
- Montana’s Development of NNC
- see Technical & Economic Reports
- Mississippi’s Development of NNC
- New Jersey’s Nutrient Related Research
- Wisconsin’s Phosphorus Criteria Technical Support Document (NEED PDF)
- WERF’s Nutrient Modeling Toolbox
- States and NPDES permit holders can use the Nutrient Impact Modeling Toolbox to quantifiably link designated uses, environmental indicators/response variables, and N and P for various types of waters. The Toolbox helps users to select modeling approaches based on a variety of factors, including type of system, response variables of interest, and data availability. The Toolbox also helps users understand the limitations and proper regulatory applications associated with the various modeling options.
Water Quality Monitoring, Assessment, Reporting, and Planning for Nutrients
- Maryland’s Assessment and Scenario Tool (MAST)
- West Virginia Recreational Activity and Filamentous Algae
- report on resident tolerance levels to filamentous algae
Permitting, WQBELs, and Trading Guidance
- Long Island Sound nutrient trading (Connecticut)
- Wisconsin phosphorus adaptive management and trading initiatives
- WERF–Nutrient Removal Technology Performance & Reliability
Economics and Financing
- Maryland Water Quality Financing Administration
- WQFA administers various loan and grant programs to provide low interest rate loans and/or grant funding for clean water and drinking water capital projects statewide
- National Academy of Sciences — Economic Analysis of Final Water Quality Standards for Nutrients for Lakes and Flowing Waters in Florida
- Montana’s Development of Numeric Nutrient Criteria
- see MT’s Economic Consideration Reports
- Utah’s Economic Evaluation of Statewide Nutrient Criteria Development
- Washington State’s Technical and Economic Evaluation of Nitrogen and Phosphorus Removal at Municipal Wastewater Treatment Facilities
- WERF–Striking the Balance Between Nutrient Removal in Wastewater Treatment and Sustainability
- Economic Analysis of Phosphorus Reduction in Wisconsin Water Bodies
Communications Materials
- Agricultural collaboration: Midwest Cover Crops Council
- Illinois Sierra Club
- see the Sierra Club’s two-page overview of nutrients issues in Illinois
- Mississippi River Collaborative
- a partnership of environmental organizations and legal centers in Mississippi River states, which works to address nutrient pollution issues
- American Farmland Trust
- a three-state collaboration to benefit farmers and improve water quality in the Ohio River Basin
- Water Online–Recovery and Reuse of Nutrients
